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Nahum Tschacbasov

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Nahum Tschacbasov (1899 - 1984) was active/lived in New York.  Nahum Tschacbasov is known for Mod figure, landscape, ceramics.

The following has been provided by Leonard Barton, the artists' stepson.

1899 Nahum Tschacbasov, the second oldest of nine children, is born in Baku, a town on the Caspian Sea, in Azerbaijan, Russia.

1905 His father, Stephan, emigrates from Russia, settles in Chicago, and starts a printing business using a new family name, Licterman.

1907 Tschacbasov, with his mother Sophie and brothers and sisters, joins his father in Chicago just as the financial crash causes the failure of his father's business. Tschacbasov grows up in the Chicago slums.

1913 He leaves school at the age of thirteen and takes a succession of jobs to help support the family. He attends night school for one year, studying electrical engineering.

1918 He enlists in the Navy and serves as an electrician at Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland. The light of the North Sea impresses him greatly. "Nothing could compare with the Scapa Flow. My feeling for color in my work has drawn   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24672 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Nahum Tschacbasov


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Automatism, Automatic Writing, Drawing
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Hand-Crafted Objects
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Satire, Parody
  • Underwater, Marine Imagery, Fish, Aquatic Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Israel
  • Russia
  • Woodstock, New York
Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists-
  • Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art Teacher
  • Stanley William Hayter
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
  • Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Ceramic Specialty
  • Figure Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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